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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023
Whole Earth Festival marks 54th year By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Becoming one with the Earth and the whole human family is what it’s all about at the Whole Earth Festival held annually at UC Davis. This year’s theme, “Sell Out to Love,” will play out in various ways this Mother’s Day Weekend. According to WEF’s social media, the festival’s previously announced theme, “Rooted in Resilience,” happened to be a theme of an event held by UCD Bridge geared toward Pilipinx youth and community building. “Out of respect Wayne Tilc to our fellow student-run Primo ock/En terprise S a n t a file pho n a , org, we made the staff deci- groo le tos ft , and Dariu ve on at t s W sion to change our theme to dan h e e is 2 s 0 1 g 7 Whole E et their in ces with t a ‘Sell out to Love’!” In th e 2016 fe a hoop as she dod rth Festival. At rig ergenerational appreciation of the small ges rain s stival at U ht, Hanna howers F C Davis. businesses that have supriday even h Pieh ing at ported the festival since the Earth beginning, organizers decided to Festival. Under “sellout to the small businesses the Whole Earth Festival Afghan that have sponsored and sup- umbrella theme of “love,” CCNS refugees in Sacraported us throughout the last five offers a “unique take on how to mento), just returned from spread love on the planet.” They decades.” six weeks in Mexico and at Organizers invite visitors to will present images and stories “Sell out to small business; sell from their service projects under- the US/Mexico border wall out to the community; sell out to taken around the world com- where they gave water, kindness; and most of all, sell out bined with humorous life lessons food, blankets, and toiletpresented by their "Puppet The- ries to asylum seekers. Their to Love!” booth at the festival includes According to a press release ater of Consciousness." from Nevada County-based nonCCNS, which has assisted refu- a video presentation of these profit Center for Cultural and gees and impoverished children projects, according to the Naturalist Studies, a booth and around the world (including release. presenting a workshop on Friday Burmese refugees in Thailand, and Saturday at the Davis Whole Syrian refugees in Turkey, and See WHOLE EARTH, Page A3
Watch sun rise at conservancy Special to The Enterprise People who want to start their day early by welcoming the sun on a brisk morning hike or go bird watching are being invited to “Sunrise Sundays” at the Cache Creek Conservancy, located west of Woodland. The monthly greeting of the sun begins May 7 and will continue on the first Sunday of each month through Sept. 3, according to representatives of the conservancy. The purpose of the event is “to provide photographers, birders, early morning hikers, and wildlife viewers access to the Cache Creek Nature Preserve during early morning hours for unique opportunities to
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DUI driver admits to murder in West Sac crash By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
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Birders take in the sunrise at the Cache Creek Conservancy earlier this year. Through Sept. 3, the Conservancy will open 15 minutes before sunrise for those wanting to welcome the day. take pictures or see birds or wildlife,” according to Conservancy Executive
WEATHER Saturday: Sunny and hot. High 96. Low 61.
Director Nancy Ullrey.
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WOODLAND — When he got his first drunkendriving conviction in 2016, Gabriel Rhythm Poletti received a judge's warning that any future DUIs resulting in death could result in murder charges — a California provision known as a “Watson advisement.” Sacramento police arrested him for DUI a second time on Feb. 2, 2021, when he collided with a moving vehicle as well as a parked car while making an unsafe turn. Only 13 days passed before Poletti caused
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another alcohol-related crash, this one claiming the lives of two West Sacramento parents and injuring their two young children as they left a family birthday party on the night of Feb. 15, 2021. On Wednesday, Poletti, 29, pleaded guilty to all the charges against him, including two counts each of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, along with enhancements for causing great bodily injury to his victims. Yolo Superior Court Judge Peter Williams said he plans to sentence
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